Deborah L Schofield PhD., DNP, CRNP, FAANP
Dr. Schofield is the first Nurse Practitioner to be selected as the Director of Patient Safety and Quality at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) beginning August, 2015. In her former role, she was the Senior Program Manager for NP specialty areas at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She implemented the first NP post-graduate fellowship in the Mid-Atlantic area and is an expert on implementation of NP fellowship programs and consults nationally. Dr. Schofield was an early leader in defining the role and scope of practice for emergency medicine NPs, and successfully implemented the first emergency medicine and psychiatric emergency NP teams at UMMC. She was a CCNE Board of Commissioners member and editorial board member for numerous journals. She received the UMMC Excellence in Advanced Practice Nursing Award.
After 18 years at the University of Maryland Medical Center in these various leadership roles, she accepted the role of Director of Advanced Practice at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in August, 2022.